In the face of such unsettlement for the dead, there is much anxiety (fuan) around the issue of mortuary care.…
Facing death alone: Mortuary prospects for the socially solo in Japan
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Schools, megachurches, and the corporate form
This dialogue reflects an ongoing conversation between Heather Mellquist Lehto and Jolyon Baraka Thomas about transnational approaches to critical secularism…
Making persons, cultures, and nations
In this exchange, Levi McLaughlin and Deonnie Moodie discuss person-making, culture-making, and nation-making projects in Japan and India.
The corporate nature of “alternative” practices
Ioannis Gaitanidis and Aike P. Rots, scholars of contemporary Asian religion, discuss commercial spirituality and corporate myth-making with examples from…
Investigating the corporate form in practice: Heterarchy, hitozukuri, Hello Kitty, and the public good
[In] this essay we briefly elaborate upon the topics we covered in our [JAAR] article to outline promising areas for…
Religious freedom, past and future
For those of us who have been following the Politics of Religious Freedom project on this website and elsewhere, Beyond…
The Invention of Religion in Japan
In the book The Invention of Religion in Japan, Jason Ananda Josephson traces the roots and history of religion in Japan.
CFP: Remixing Religion
The University of Texas at Austin has announced a call for papers for the upcoming interdisciplinary graduate student conference, "Remixing…
A struggle between faith and human action? Or, a question of apples and oranges
But then here, on another level, a question similar to that of the Christians above arises: when is human action…
Elsewhere, in the saturation of the body
About eight months into my fieldwork, I began to have dreams about the morning disciplinary routines at OISCA’s training centers.…